ppGpp: A global regulator in Escherichia coli

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 236-242

  Magnusson, Lisa U ^a   Farewell, Anne ^a   Nyström, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; NUCLEOTIDE PPGPP; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM; BASE PAIRING; CELL FUNCTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEOMICS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 18044367581     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2005.03.008     Document Type: Review

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